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Gödel's incompleteness theorems edit

Gödel's incompleteness theorems are two theorems in mathematical logic.

The quick version edit

Laconic edit

TODO: add laconic. https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-incompleteness-theorems-work-20200714

Gödel's incompleteness theorems

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6wKf33az3bPh2WP55/goedel-incompleteness-for-dummies

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GZjGtd35vhCnzSQKy/godel-s-completeness-and-incompleteness-theorems

https://www.logicmatters.net/resources/pdfs/godelbook/GodelBookLM.pdf

Analogy edit

Cantor's diagonal argument but with (un)provable statements instead of (un)countable sets of numbers.

Visuals edit

 
Cantor's diagonal argument is used in Godel's theorems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo TODO: embed these as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrKLy4VN-7k

The visual here (and caveats described): https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1319459/is-this-visual-analogy-to-g%C3%B6dels-incompleteness-theorem-accurate






Examples edit

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Longer Explanation edit

Historical Motivation edit

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Plain English edit

The First Theorem edit

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The Second Theorem edit

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Restatements edit

TODO: copypaste/do-math-symbols-correctly for "in this case" and "the answer is" paragraphs from https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/453503/can-someone-explain-g%C3%B6dels-incompleteness-theorems-in-layman-terms

Technical Definition edit

Technical edit

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Proof edit

TODO: add links to Godel's and proofs from https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02549

Metamath edit

TODO: somebody fill the issue https://github.com/metamath/set.mm/issues/87, link resulting MM file.

Flashcards edit

TODO: create Anki deck once page is semi-complete.

Practice Problems edit

TODO: create practice problems once page is semi-complete.